"Spurs-a-jingle boffins in America say that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), most
puissant matter-rending machine ever assembled by humanity, may also turn out
to be the first time machine ever built. According to the physicists' calculations,
instruments at the mighty particle-smasher may soon detect signs of "singlets"
which it has not yet generated, sent back from their creation in the future."

"Spurs-a-jingle boffins in America say that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), most
puissant matter-rending machine ever assembled by humanity, may also turn out
to be the first time machine ever built. According to the physicists' calculations,
instruments at the mighty particle-smasher may soon detect signs of "singlets"
which it has not yet generated, sent back from their creation in the future."

"Darpa recently launched a program called the 100 Year Starship, which is exactly
what it sounds like: an effort to achieve interstellar flight by the year 2111. This
being Darpa, they’re dead serious. And they also recognize that 2011-era
technology probably isn’t good enough to forecast the state of the art over the
next 100 years."

I have a new theory. I am starting to think that everything that the human mind can think of is literally possible to achieve. The limiting factor to make reality anything we think of is based on our state of consciousness and our level of knowledge.

Asuras

2011-06-19 18:11

Of course. Anything is possible with enough ingenuity and technological background. All we need is the parts and a dedicated team.

AnimeFan188

2011-06-20 15:31

Fire-quenching electric forcefield backpack invented

"Boffins in America say they're on the track of a backpack electro-beam forcefield
device capable of snuffing out raging fires without any need for water, hoses or
other traditional firefighting apparatus. Apart from portable applications, they
raise the possibility that the new technology might replace building sprinkler
systems with ceiling mounted conflagration-squelching zapper terminals."

Researchers at Tokyo University have come up with a technology that is a first and significant step away from the mouse and keyboard – touchable holograms.

[Hiroyuki Shinoda, Professor, Tokyo University]:
"Up until now, holography has been for the eyes only, and if you'd try to touch it, your hand would go right through. But now we have a technology that also adds the sensation of touch to holograms."

The technology consists of software that uses ultrasonic waves to create pressure on the hand of a user “touching” the projected hologram.

Researchers are using two Wiimotes from Nintendo’s Wii gaming system to track a user’s hand.

The technology was introduced at SIGGRAPH, an annual computer graphics conference, and has so far only been tested with relatively simple objects.

But its inventors have big plans for touchable holograms in the future.

Weiler insists that proper speculo-fiction time travel, faster-than-light transport etc still isn't on as only ultra-bizarro sub-subatomic particles can perform these extradimensional feats. However he does raise the possibilities of communication using such particles.

"Because time travel is limited to these special particles, it is not possible for a man to travel back in time and murder one of his parents before he himself is born, for example," says the prof. "However, if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future."

The LHC, then, might function as a transmitter for communicating across time – or, it would seem, as a possible means of sending messages across the three-dimensional universe faster than light can travel through it.

D-mail? :heh:

AnimeFan188

2011-06-27 11:48

Scientists Create First Memory Expansion for Brain

"Scientists have created a chip that allows rats to instantly know things. It's
amazing.

After studying the chemical interactions that allow short-term learning and
memorization in rats, a group of scientists lead by Dr. Theodore Berger—from the
University of South California's Viterbi School of Engineering—have built a
prosthetic chip that uses electrodes to enhance and expand their memory
abilities. The chip is capable of storing neural signals, basically functioning as an
electronic memory, allowing rats to learn more and keep it in the devices."

Is Aging Itself a Curable Disease? This Scientist Says Yes—Up to a Point

"In an article for the magazine American Scientist, Gems notes that as the global
population ages, we are likely to see a growing percentage of humanity living
long enough to be afflicted with illnesses related to old age."

"Gems says it may indeed be possible to “treat” aging. He knows because he’s
personally involved with cutting edge research in the area."

"Scientists have created a chip that allows rats to instantly know things. It's
amazing.

After studying the chemical interactions that allow short-term learning and
memorization in rats, a group of scientists lead by Dr. Theodore Berger—from the
University of South California's Viterbi School of Engineering—have built a
prosthetic chip that uses electrodes to enhance and expand their memory
abilities. The chip is capable of storing neural signals, basically functioning as an
electronic memory, allowing rats to learn more and keep it in the devices."

I find this very interesting. I know it didn't say in the article that the chip would enhance abilities, but I wonder if future applications of this technology would be something along the lines of using a "Steve Vai" chip and then instantly being able to play guitar like Steve Vai while the chip was active. Certainly this would require not only knowledge memory, but muscle memory as well.

AnimeFan188

2011-06-27 15:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Endless Soul
(Post 3669216)

I find this very interesting. I know it didn't say in the article that the chip would enhance abilities, but I wonder if future applications of this technology would be something along the lines of using a "Steve Vai" chip and then instantly being able to play guitar like Steve Vai while the chip was active. Certainly this would require not only knowledge memory, but muscle memory as well.